Tag Archives: testing

testing tangible assets

What do I mean by tangible assests?
Well, in the case of a web app, one of the most distinctive tangible assets is your domain name. How often have you heard of a company having trouble because their domain name didn’t get renewed in time, taken over by someone nasty or their registrar messed up?
One suggestion [...]

test plan numbers

So I’m briefly going to talk about test plan numbers here, mainly in response to mst’s blog post, where he expresses his opinion that test plan numbers are bad. I happen to disagree with him in some respects and agree with him in others (we’ve also discussed on IRC briefly).
Matt’s verdict is that test plan [...]

Making perl tests more readable

How many times have you gone through a test script from an outside project, or an older project and read through the source and found that you couldn’t discern the meaning of the test? For me it’s been plenty of times and especially so with test automation using things like selenium. This is part of [...]

Testing and all things QA

I’ve been a longtime proponent of testing software products and have built up a lot of ideas and methodologies over time. When I’ve been consulting with clients, it’s been difficult to express these ideas and methodologies to people in a succinct and easy to digest way.
I’m going to start writing some articles on testing in [...]